Razorback Linebacker Dismissed After Weekend DUI Arrest
Published: June 29, 2009
Arkansas linebacker Khiry Battle has been dismissed from the team after a weekend arrest on a charge of driving under the influence.
Coach Bobby Petrino announced Battle’s dismissal Monday, saying only that he’d violated team rules. The 20-year-old Battle was arrested early Sunday on a charge of misdemeanor DUI. Police say Battle failed a field sobriety test and refused to take a breath alcohol test, leading to a charge of
violating the state’s implied consent law.
On May 6, Battle was arrested after an incident in which a background check revealed he had an arrest warrant for failure to
appear for a careless driving ticket. Battle played in 10 games last season as a freshman and made five tackles.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Good. This is the kind of action we should always see in these cases of blatant disregard and absolute irresponsibility, for college and pro sports figures, instead of letting them off scot-free when they decide to get behind the wheel drunk and kill innocent people.
EXAMPLE: That piece of crap Donte Stallworth of the Cleveland Browns. Got drunk at a South Beach club, got in his $200,000 Bentley, ran over a pedestrian, killing the man.
Stallworth gets 30 days in jail, a little bit of house arrest time and he buys off the man’s family…..and he still gets to play NFL football.
The NFL and the owner of the Cleveland Browns should be ASHAMED. This piece of garbage should have been thrown OUT of the NFL, fined, blackballed and everything else you can think of to do to him, so that he never plays ANY kind of sport again as long as he lives.
What kind of world do we live in when people who PLAY GAMES for a living (because they’re incapable of making a living any other way) are allowed to literally get away with murder? A sad state of affairs.
This country is headed for a bitter and bad ending.
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